Reply #139: **Update** and Heartfelt thanks....

[Dystopian]

I really tried. The first night I had intentions of acknowledging all individually...I stayed up almost all night.
DUers are the greatest....then I went back with the strikers, and the thread got so huge...
Now I must simply express my thanks to all....

I printed out the DU site front page....will deliver to the union steward tonight.

The Gardner News finally arrived yesterday after the strikers told them that they would be joined by elderly retirees.
The strikers initially told me that they wouldn't get local media attention unless they were portrayed as 'thugs'

Today I see the opening line of the article:

GARDNER — Among the calls of “scab,” Verizon picket lines, and police Thursday two retirees reminisced about times past with the various iterations of the telephone company. “After being here for 32 years, I have to be here,” said Sophi Lore Melanson, of coming to the picket line.

(bold print mine) They were right.
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I also told them that I'd post the picture taken with them....



THANK YOU DU!



peace~